Heart Attack of Shopper Spurs Bitter Article
A woman died of a heart attack while waiting in line to buy milk in the Ural Mountains city of Chelyabinsk, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
In a bitter commentary on the death, which occurred Tuesday, a Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter wrote that “it’s time to hang memorial plaques like, ‘Killed in a fight for a piece of sausage’ or ‘Died for a liter of milk’ on the walls of food stores in Chelyabinsk.”
Food shortages have occurred across the Soviet Union in recent months, forcing shoppers to stand in long lines for even the most basic goods like bread, cheese, milk and meat.
The report did not give the woman’s name.
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